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Show UNIVERSAL P.O. DCX KIC3CFIL2IJKJ 2bC3 SALT LAKE CITY BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID OGDEN, UTAH 84401 PERMIT NO.-27- Vol. 3 No. 31 CCHP. 1 ta Bm Lome BEE North Ogden,' Utah erf"3? 1 Thursday, August 31, 1978 1 North Ogden passes resolution A resolution was passed by the North Ogden City Council in their weekly council meeting, concerning Ogden Citys threat to go alone on the sales tax issue. If Mayor Eldon McColley said, Ogden does this it will sink us and we Councilman have to let them know. Alan Christiansen endorsed the resolution which was also approved by the Pleasant View and Washington Terrace city councils. The resolution reads: We deplore the recent action of the Ogden City Council in their threat to go it alone on the sales tax issue. We feel that negotiations currently under way through the Weber area council of Governments should be pursued to a reasonable and fair compromise free from threat or intimidation. Our citizens would like to retain our rural bedroom community county to achieve a fair and sensible compromise. Respectfully, North Ogden City Council Aug. 28, 1978 This resolution is endorsed by the Mayors of Washington Terrace, Pleasant View, Plain City and Harrisville. Others would have joined had we been able to contact them. The council also heard from the committee chaired by Melvin Wood on the widening of 450 E. in North Ogden. Wood said that most of the people concerned would like to have an additional study done. We are fighting for a one-wa- y street situation and we want it put before the people, he continued. Other citizens commented that the one way street should be tried for awhile. at- mosphere and do most of their shopping in downtown Ogden. If your decision is fully implemented it would force our community and others in the county to rezone large areas for commercial use and to devlop our own tax base. It would force us into an economic war of survival which in the end could onlyhurt Ogden city leaving a well conceived and beautiful downtown mall in question of financial success 4 We urge you to reconsider your hasty and ill advised decision. Work with us and other communities in the Mayor McColley told the citizens present that Washington Boulevard had to be widened before inflation Your street brought the costs up. has to be lengthened and we wont go more than 66 feet. I dont want you to say that I havent listened to your ideas and suggestions, he said. said that the council McColley would reconsider the situation and let the people know the final decision. He also reminded the people that the actual widening would be in the future. KICKBALL Council discusses for these IS A favorite activity for back-to-scho- Pleasant View children. children at Lomond View Elementary. Monday was the first day of school collected ideas, problems council Mayor Peary Barker presided at the regular Pleasant View city meeting Coencilmen discussed the proposal for the chipping ana sealing of street, revenue sharing, the North View fire department and other important items of concern to the Pleasant View community. The proposal from Parson Asphalt to chip and seal 17,782 square feet of sheet at 35 cents a square yard was discussed and given the go ahead. to sign the Statement of Mayor Barker was authorized by the council Assurance for Entitlement Period of Revenue Sharing and he also signed the agreement with the city of North Ogden for the opoeration of the North View Fire Station for five more years. Councilman Gene Mortensen, after some study, said that three per cent of the cost of improvement for engineering and inspection fees appeared to be an equitable sum to amend to the ordinance. Mortensen was asked to give the matter more study and to report his findings at the next meeting. The Acme Fence Company was given the bid of $3,286 for fencing the retention pond below the park. Sealed bids were given to the Council by Seargant Dearden of the Pleasant View Police Department fot the purchase of a new police car. The bids were opened and the council reviewed the following: Rawson and Lund no bid, since they dont stock police cars; Cutrubus Motors - $6,397.94, 1978 Plymouth Fury; Anderson Ford - $6,226.84, 1979 Ford. The bids were reviewed and the low bid did not meet the specifications on a number of items Seargant Dearden was asked to review the specifications and make a decision on buying the car. Finding a qualified police office for Pleasant View was also a topic of discussion by the Pleasant View city council. Sgt. Dearden was asked to find an officer. Councilman Thane Hales told the council that in order to obtain a B.O.R. It is a 0 grant, the application must be submitted prior to June, 1979. is a there third also for funds Parks and phase of Recreation, grant matching EDA. funding of two billion dollars in the mill and that thought should be given to submitting an application, he said. He also said that HUD money was available, but that because of economic reasons, Pleasant View did not stand much of a chance in securing this type of grant. Problems at the Posse Arena were discussed and councilman Edward Morgan was asked to study the problems and make a recommendation. canvas of The animal control officer was asked to make a licensed. were if their to determine resident dogs 50-5- door-to-do- Be careful during holiday Labor Day has always been a weekend of high fire danger and this year is no exception. During the month of August we received a couple of days of summer moisture. This moisture helped reduce the fire danger - temporarily. As you have noticed, our hillsides are very brown and the vegetation is completely dried out. Even a few leaves on the trees have started to dry out. With all the vegetation drying out, the risk of fire increases tremendously. This year we have had quite a few costly fires. These fires have been not only costly in the terms of dollars (one half million dollars) but also in lost resources. Valuable timber, wildlife habitate, along with good livestock grazing land has been lost. The majority of the fires this summer have been Many of those fires have been along our highways and can be traced to a discarded cigarette butt. Campfires have also been the cause of tnany fires. Either they were improperly built or left unattended. We at the State Foresters Office feel that with the publics cooperation and support that we will be able to cut down on the number of fires over this holiday weekend. So during your travels, be extra careful and when you are out enjoying Utahs natural beauty, remember that a single match, a discarded cigarette or an unattended campfire can destroy many acres of scenic beauty. man-cause- man-cause- d BY KRIS EWERT Beacon Writer There have been some Plain City sewer users who, for one reason or another, have accumulated monthly billings beyond reason. Plain City has dispatched their attorney to collect some of these delinquent bills and is adopting a sewer bill policy which, it is hoped, will expedite the collection of delinquent bills in the future. When a bill remains unpaid for three months the sewer user will be sent a notice when and if the total delinquency account reaches the $50 mark Plain Citys attorney will proceed to garnish wages, put a lein on homes, or what ever else it might take to get their bill up to date. Many Plain City residents, because of the difficulty that has dogged the sewer system from the beginning, have refused to pay their sewer bill with the intended hope that someone might do something. The most frequently expressed sentiment has been, why pay for something that I was forced to hook on to, that I dont want and that doesnt work anyway. It would appear however, from every outward sign that the Plain City to city council is doing all they can remedy this long time festering wound. To refuse to pay the sewer bill, (if this is the reason it is delinquent) seems, in the light of the recently approved sewer cleaning equipment purchase, to be the least effective way now to gain sympathy for your cause On Aug. 24, sewer cleaning equipment was demonstrated for the Plain City city council. That evening at city council meeting at $12,000 monitary outlay was unanimously approved to purchase the equipment viewed earlier. The purchase price also includes 200 feet of new hose which is under warranty for one year. Plain City will now be able to more efficiently maintain and service the sewer lines throughout the city. Originally, (before the proposed purchase) whenever a sewer problem arose (no pun intended), an emergency call would be placed to a private sewer cleaning company. It often required one to two hours before the company could respond. Of course, by that time, what was an emergency could well have been a disaster. In addition to which Plain City is billed for the service. According to Mayor Lower, the sewer cleaning equipment will pay for itself the first couple of times it is used. In addition to the obvious benefi t of overall decreased monitary expenditure for sewer emergencies; the1 response time, a vital factor, would be substantially diminished because of the fact that the necessary machinery will already be in Plain City. The equipment will also be used to periodically flush the softer lines, which will be a definite benefit as this flushing will increase the capacity of the sewer lines. Presently, much of the sewer lines efficiency is lost due to silt infiltration. It has become a habit, apparently, of some dog owners, who, having a litter of unwanted puppies, simply take them to the pound for disposal. This is all well and good except, the bill of $6 a dog is sent to Plain City. Now it is a cost footed by Plain City citizens. To remedy this situation the Plain City city council agreed that all dog owners wishing to dispose of pups will be personally responsible for the pounds disposal fee. n m inNorthOgden BY CAROL SHAW Beacon Writer The North Ogden Stake was divided during Stake Conference last Sunday and a new Ward was formed, creating the Ben Lomond Stake and the North Ogden Fourteenth Ward. Calvin Heiner was released as First Counselor to President J. Gordon Vaughn of the North Ogden Stake and sustained as the new stake president of the Ben Lomond Stake. The new stake will include the fifth, sixth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth wards. It will start out with 24,015 members, but will probably increase rapidly in numbers as it is located in the North East corner of North Ogden, where there are a lot of new homes being built. The southern boundary starts at 450 E. on the west and goes along 2850 N. to 800 E., south on 800 E. to 2750, then along 2750 N. to 1050 E., south on 1050 E. and east to the mountain on 2600 N. The North Ogden Stake will have 33,051 members in seven wards. The first second, third, fourth, eighth, tenth, and twelth wards. (The seventh and ninth wards are in the Pleasant View Stake.) Elder James A. Paramore of the LDS Churchs First Quorum of the at the presided reorganization, assisted by Rendell N. Mabey, Regional Representative of Seventy the Twelve Apostles. Lloyd Hadley was called to be a Patriarch in the North Ogden Stake. Karl S. Storey was released as Patriarch in the North Ogden Stake and sustained as Patriarch in the Ben Lomond Stake. William S. Southwick was released as second Counselor to President Vaughn in the North Ogden Stake and sustained as first Counselor. Garth L. Willey was sustained as the new second counselor. Sustained in the Ben Lomond Stake as counselors to President Heiner were Don F. Colvin, first counselor and Brent A. Heap, second counselor. Brent Heap was released as Stake Clerk in the North Ogden Stake. Hale Buchanan was sustained as the Bishop in the North Ogden eighth Ward. Gerald Peterson was sustained as Bishop in the new fourteenth ward, which was formed by a division of the eighth, tenth, and thirteenth wards. George Nicholes was sustained as first counselor with John Seamons as second counselor. Bruce Kendrick was sustained to the North Ogden Stake High Council. n Ben Lomond Stake High sustained were Ray Coleman, Garth Williams, Lester Gerner, Rulon Ashcroft, Kent Rowe, David Bronson, William Norris, Edward Schaffer, David Gladwell, Lavon Suhr, Gordon Payne and Bruce Erickson. Coun-cilme- Workers needed for approaching tax season More seasonal tax workers are needed by the Ogden IRS Center for the upcoming tax processing season, according to officials at the Ogden-base- d computer facility. "While we have been seeking applicants for various positions most of the summer, we find that we still need more applicants for data transcribers, said Lynn Peterson, Chief of the Center's Personnel Branch. Data Transcribers enter in- formation from tax documents into the Centers massive computer by screen using a keyboard-videterminal. "These positions start at $3.38 per hour and successful applicants will be given 60 hours paid o commented training, Peterson. Applicants must pass a short written test which measures a persons ability to understand and follow instructions. In addition applicants for data transcriber positions must type at least 30 words per minute and must submit a certificate of typing proficiency. "As a convenience for applicants, the IRS will assist in administering typing tests, Peterson noted. The tests will be given at the Job Services Center, 2655 Adams Ave. in Ogden, he said. Applicants should call extension 35 for an appointment to take the typing test. Applications and additional in 399-218- formation are available at the Federal Job Information Center, Room 1407, Ogden Federal Building, Street, or Room 403, U.SS. Office Building, 350 South Main Street, Salt Lake City. Information and applications may be obtained by calling (toll free) or in Ogden and in Salt Lake City. Ogden area residents may also call the Ogden IRS Center at While these employment opportunities are seasonal, promotions to higher grades and conversions to d work may be permanent made as vacancies occure, he said. 324 25th Courthouse-Pos- t 399-685- 4 524-274- 4 399-611- year-roun- Send in a news tip for your local newspaper |